Using Rhino BETA on Multiple Computers

[brian (Brian Gillespie)]

@amanda

I’m having a little trouble visualizing the Rhino 6 version of my current workflow. I have one Rhino 5 license, but have installed Rhino on two computers (a desktop with a 5K monitor and a laptop). I never use it on more than one machine simultaneously, but I very frequently switch from machine to machine depending on whether or not I’m in my office, traveling, etc. Just having a floating license that’s validated when I launch Rhino would almost work, but the laptop is not always online when I want to launch Rhino (example: on an airplane).

Hi @amanda, your workflow is exactly what we have in mind for licensing using your Rhino account. I encourage you to try it now and see if you can get it to work in all the scenarios you imagine. You can turn off your network connections to pretend you are on an airplane, and see how it works.

@RIL

SLAVERY

I’m disappointed by your choice of metaphor. That aside, there are already people linking multiple instances of Rhino/Grasshopper together to distribute workload to multiple machines. Flux and MetaHopper come to mind.

@wim

In my case specifically, I have a laptop and a workstation and I need to be able to run RH5 with legacy plug-ins and RH6 on both (though not at the same time). And need to be able to replace one of those machines when that becomes necessary.

I think using your Rhino account should work perfectly, then.